Considering all you do is shut down the game for maintenance the least you can do is compensate the player base!
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I don’t disagree
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Yes, sir! Let’s see, 2 hours special downtime… that’ll be a refund of $0.03! It will be reflected in your next bill.
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I’ve lost more time and rewards to things not working properly really.
So yea, I’d rather they have some down time to fix things before I miss out on more things.
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31 days in March
31x24 = 744 hours
$15 for a monthly sub
15/744 = 0.02
So how do you want Blizzard to mail you your two pennies?
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Im a penny saver.
Would it really be a maintenance if there wasnt a post like this?
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Sir, Blizz don’t owe you anything. Nowhere in the ToS that you signed does it say that they owe any a specific number of hours per week to play. Nor does it say that the servers need to be up at your every convenience.
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Lets use our brain here, Obviously theyd refund hours, Not money.
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Nope, enjoy your pennies
Penny boy
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Sure, you can have one hour tonight at 3:30-4:30am
You literally have hours that you’re not using. They’re not going to refund you time when you have a surplus of time you’re not even using to play.
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Yes doing maintenance live is a much better option…
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They are, Its funny, Wasting time during downtime. Love trolling forum grinders.
Grow up, OP.
17433 posts, I don’t think im the one that needs to grow up.
yeah, I don’t need that less than 10 cents back that badly
Calm down professional typers! Servers are back up! I saved 10 cents!
I’ve been here for 20 years, only seen something like that once. not happening
Just because I enjoy the law…
You are correct that the ToS doesn’t guarantee any particular amount of uptime.
However, Courts do recognise the “spirit” of a contract. A person pays money to play WoW. That is the spirit of the contract. Therefore, Blizz owes them playtime.
Blizz can’t come along, shut down the servers, and say “we never promised you any amount of playtime” and walk away with the money. (I realise you aren’t arguing that. I am using an exaggeration.)
The question then becomes, at what point does Blizz cross the threshold of having given “enough”?
This is where Courts apply “reasonable person” standard. They ask, if there are 720 hours in a 30 day period, how many hours must be available for the player to play the game before Blizz is considered to have fulfilled the spirit of the agreement?
And different judges will have different opinions.
If the game is down for eight hours in a month, Blizz will likely win. If it is down for 700 hours, Blizz will likely lose no matter how they worded their contract.
Black and white is not always black and white.
Anyway, like I said, this is an interesting concept in the law and always fun to discuss.
Disclosure: No, I am not a lawyer, but I do work with contract law quite a lot, though not consumer contracts.
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